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This commentary views the book of Genesis as a sacred text that, in conjunction with other biblical books, enabled the people of Judah/Israel to begin anew after the nation’s destruction by the Babylonian Empire. In Genesis, the Creator God brings forth life by the Word alone. Stories of disaster and destruction, often a crux of interpretation, find new resonance when set against the backdrop of...

Prologue to the Gospel of John (1:1–18) The Prologue to the Gospel of John (1:1–18) uses the first chapter of Genesis to reflect on the meaning of the good news of Jesus Christ. In the process, John reinterprets Genesis. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him nothing came into being. What has come into being in him was life and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the
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